none can be Tyrants but Cowards.

The Span of Life is too short to be trifled away in unconcerning and unprofitable Matters.

Your glass will not do you half so much service as a serious reflection on your own minds.

For my part I think the Learned, and Unlearned Blockhead pretty equal; for 'tis all one to me, whether a Man talk Nonsense, or unintelligible Sense, I am diverted and edified alike by either; the one enjoys himself less, but suffers his Friends to do it more; the other enjoys himself and his own Humour enough, but will let no body else do it in his Company.

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it.

If God had not intended that Women shou'd use their Reason, He wou'd not have given them any, 'for He does nothing in vain.